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- Book Title
- The Poison in the Gift: Ritual, Prestation and the Dominant Caste
- ISBN
- 9780226707297
- Subject Area
- Social Science
- Publication Name
- Poison in the Gift : Ritual, Prestation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village
- Item Length
- 0.9 in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Subject
- Sociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions
- Publication Year
- 1988
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- Textbook
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- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
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- 0.6 in
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- Number of Pages
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The Poison in the Gift is a detailed ethnography of gift-giving in a North Indian village that powerfully demonstrates a new theoretical interpretation of caste. Introducing the concept of ritual centrality , Raheja shows that the position of the dominant landholding caste in the village is grounded in a central-peripheral configuration of castes rather than a hierarchical ordering. She advances a view of caste as semiotically constituted of contextually shifting sets of meanings, rather than one overarching ideological feature. This new understanding undermines the controversial interpretation advanced by Louis Dumont in his 1966 book, Homo Hierarchicus , in which he proposed a disjunction between the ideology of hierarchy based on the "purity" of the Brahman priest and the "temporal power" of the dominant caste or the king.
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226707296
ISBN-13
9780226707297
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109617
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Publication Name
Poison in the Gift : Ritual, Prestation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Sociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
1988
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science
Number of Pages
300 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
87-028924
Lc Classification Number
Gn635.I6r34 1988
Table of Content
List of Figures List of Tables Preface 1. Introduction: Toward a Redefinition of "Dominance" in North Indian Society 2. Auspiciousness and Inauspiciousness as Cultural Constructs 3. The Structure of Ritual Action 4. The Ritual Contexts of Dan and the Ritual Construction of Gujar Centrality 5. Prestation Types and Terminological Usages: Shifting Configurations of Castes and Kinsmen in Pahansu 6. Conclusions Notes References Index
Copyright Date
1988
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
392/.0954/2
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes
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